All Justice Info articles since 2015
All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.
When a people’s tribunal tries the People’s Republic of China
19 July 2024
by Margherita Capacci
A people’s court sitting in The Hague has “indicted” Chinese President Xi Jinping for genocide and crimes against humanity, notably for crimes against the Uyghur. This unofficial court set up by a non-governmental organisation hop [...]
18 July 2024
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Flag, hat or sword: a former member of the M-19 guerilla, Colombian President Gustavo Petro is publicly glorifying symbols of his ex-armed group. An attitude decried by victims and criticized by many Colombians, as his government [...]
16 July 2024
by AFP
On Tuesday 16 July, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers sentenced Pjetër Shala to 18 years’ imprisonment for war crimes committed against civilians at the Kukës Metal Factory, northern Albania, in 1999 during the war against Serbia. Ni [...]
16 July 2024
by Maria Bolevich
Considered as one of the sources of income for organised crime, along with drugs, weapons and human trafficking, transnational environmental crimes are rarely brought to justice. Within the European Union, the case of Italy highli [...]
15 July 2024
by Oksana Rekun
Is a war-ruined business in Ukraine entitled to compensation?
Russian Federation’s frozen assets are said to exceed 270 billion US dollars. In June leaders of the G7 countries approved a decision to grant Ukraine 50 billion dollars from the proceeds of these assets. A compensation mechanism [...]
12 July 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Prosecuting Russian hate speech
What is ‘hate speech’ and can it be prosecuted as an international crime? In Ukraine, Russian propaganda has targeted Ukrainians as ‘Nazis’, ‘pigs’ or ‘dogs’ and it’s been used to justify crimes. In this podcast by our partners at [...]
11 July 2024
by Anastasia Zubova
Collaboration trials in Ukraine: what do court verdicts tell us?
From March 2022 to June 2024, more than 8,000 proceedings on collaboration crimes have been registered by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General. Last year, 790 verdicts were delivered. But the law on collaboration that was passed right aft [...]
9 July 2024
by Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
“You cannot transplant the gacaca court system”
July 17th, 2024 will mark the 30th anniversary of the official end of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Denis Bikesha is a former director of training, mobilisation and sensibilisation for the gacaca courts in Rwanda after 199 [...]
8 July 2024
by Hannah El-Hitami
Trial and error: Germany reforms its law on international crimes
Through the use of universal jurisdiction, German authorities have prosecuted perpetrators of atrocity crimes in Syria, Gambia and Iraq. Now, the German parliament has passed a law to reform the Code of Crimes Against Internationa [...]
5 July 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
States vs ICC: the legal battles ahead on Palestine/Israel
What does complementarity between states and the International Criminal Court (ICC) actually means? What’s the test applied by the court? How did it evolve over the years? Do previous examples help understand the situation in Isra [...]
5 July 2024
by Lucy Gaynor
Is the ICC Al Hassan judgement a mess or the future?
In their judgement against former Malian Jihadist Abdoulaziz Al-Hassan, the three judges of the International Criminal Court never fully agreed. And when two of them agreed, it wasn’t for the same reason. To many, it may look as a [...]
4 July 2024
by Christian Catomeris
International law put to the test in prisoner exchanges
On June 15th 2024, Sweden announced the exchange of two of its nationals imprisoned in Iran for Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian official sentenced in 2022 by the Swedish courts for his role in mass executions in Iranian prisons in 1 [...]
2 July 2024
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The Drummond case, a corporate litmus test for Colombia’s transitional justice
Colombian transitional justice’s range of action over civilians allegedly involved in serious crimes during the internal conflict is quite legally limited. But one case could strike out: the case against two top executives of Drum [...]
28 June 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Prosecuting sexual violence in Ukraine’s war
According to the United Nations, there’s been a pattern of sexual violence across Ukraine and the number and consistent reports of sexual violence and rape in Russian-occupied areas suggest “a widespread and systematic pattern com [...]
28 June 2024
by Thierry Cruvellier
Gibril Massaquoi tries for the jackpot
Former Sierra Leonean rebel commander Gibril Massaquoi, twice acquitted by the Finnish courts, has filed a claim for compensation totalling around 815,000 euros for his lengthy detention. He has also taken legal action in Liberia, [...]
27 June 2024
by Boubacar Sidiki Haidara
ICC/Mali: Al Hassan verdict leaves bitter taste
On June 26, the International Criminal Court found Abdoulaziz Al Hassan, former head of the Islamic police in Timbuktu, Mali, guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes. But victims took badly his acquittal on all charges re [...]
26 June 2024
by AFP
Setback for Bashar al-Assad before the French courts
On 26 June, the Paris Court of Appeal allowed the arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity for deadly chemical attacks in August 2013. This would be the first arrest war [...]
25 June 2024
by Matthias Raynal
In Guinea, time for defence arguments in massacre trial
In the Conakry stadium massacre trial, defendants’ lawyers have been taking the stand since May 27, 2024. Almost all the accused have already had their closing arguments. At the centre of attention in recent weeks has been former [...]